LAZAR ARSENIJEVIĆ, BATALAKA (b. Bukovik (Kragujevac), 1793 – d. Belgrade, 15 January 1869)

Historian, state advisor, minister of education and justice

Membership of Society Of Serbian Letters (SSL): honorary member from 11 June 1842; president of SSL from 22 July 1848 until 16 November 1849; as well as from 25 November 1852 until 14 December 1854

Membership of Serbian Learned Society (SLS): honorary member inducted on 29 July 1864

Biography, bibliography: L. Arsenijević Batalaka: Istorija Srpskog Ustanka. Part 1. Belgrade 1898, p. III–H (N. Krstić). – Pomenik, 29–32 (M. Đ. Milićević). – Dod. Pomeniku, 171–172. – EJ 1 (D. Perović). – Ministri prosvete Srbije 1811–1918. Belgrade 1994, 44–45. – ESI 264–-265 (Mir. Jovanović).

Obituary: Jedinstvo 1 (1869) 68.

Photograph: SANU–FD 16